James Quilligan presented the following guidelines in his seminar on The Great Transition and the Commons presented at the New Economics Foundation in London, 14 May 2012.
1. We are Co-creators with Nature
2. By Creating our Shared Environment, we Participate in our own Culture
3. Through Creative Cooperation, Resource Users become Producers of their own Resources
4. Cooperation between Users and Producers is the Practice of Stewardship
5. The Social and Political Expression of Stewardship is Trusteeship
6. Co-production and Co-governance Reconcile the Duality between Deductive and Inductive Thinking, Self and Whole, and Individualism and Collectivism
7. Co-produced and Co-governed Commons Generate New Sources of Value
8. Commons Value is the basis of a Debt-Free/ interest-free Monetary System
9. A Commons-Based Society results from Collective Intentions for Sustainability
10. The Economics of the Commons is Replenishment
(Commons Trusts cap the stock, rent the flow — ensuring that commons are not diminished — prices are set through true costs to the commons. Non-debt money based on sustainability rates that measure health and well-being of human and natural communities, bioregionally. This will align government, business and community decision-making with the best interests of society and natural systems)
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update June 9 2012
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Just one comment on this: I would suggest a rewording of the explanation on nr 10:
10: Commons Trusts cap the stock, rent the flow — ensuring that our common resources are not diminished — prices are set through true costs to the use of those resources and of social spaces. Non-debt money based on sustainability rates that measure health and well-being of human and natural communities, bioregionally. This will align government, business and community decision-making with the best interests of society and natural systems.
